Statue Quotes

Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution.

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.

When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.

I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.

I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church.

I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.

Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.

If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged.

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.

Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.

I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.

And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.